Arab League. Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

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Learning unit: the Arab world and the League of Arab States. Syllabus:


- The Arab world.
- The Arab League.
- Economy of the region. International trade.
- The relationship between the League of Arab States and different regional groupings.
- The MENA region (Middle East and North Africa).
- Case study: Orascom Telecom. Etisalat.

Related Masters International Business: Master for Middle East Students - MasterMuslims countries.

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Course summary (League of Arab States) (جامعة الدول العربية):

The Arab world is a rich compound of many and different influences. Various ethnic, linguistic and religious groups live in the Arab region.

  • Arabic language and Islam stand for its main cultural characteristics. The Arab people, spread over a huge area, benefit from common links of history. The Arabs (21 countries) consider to be part of one nation (Ummah).
  • The Arab people are united through their participation in the League of Arab States.
  • Agriculture is the main economic activity. The most important food crops are wheat, barley, rice, maize and millet; mainly consumed within the Arab region, while cotton, sugarcane, sugar beets and sesame are exported as cash crops.
  • Only some Arab countries have petroleum and natural gas resources. Other natural resources in Arab countries are iron-ore, lead, phosphate, cobalt and manganese.
  • Saudi Arabia is the strongest economy of Arab world. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the top Arab economy; is the 11th major economy of Asia (followed by Egypt and Algeria)
  • Qatar is the richest developing country in the world (Gross domestic product per capita)

The Arab League, or League of the Arab States, is a regional organization of Arab states in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). The League of Arab States was formed in 1945 in Cairo (Egypt) with 6 members: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Yemen joined the League of Arab States in 1945.

The Arab League has 22 members: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

The League of Arab States is implicated in political, economic, cultural, and social programs intended to promote the interests of Arab member economies.

Example of the course League of Arab States :
League Arab States

The League of Arab States is rich in resources, with immense oil and natural gas resources. The Arab League also has great fertile lands (South of Sudan, the food basket of the Arab world).

MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)
- Middle East: Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine (the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank), Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen,
North African countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.

The MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) has huge reserves of petroleum and natural gas that make it a indispensable source of global economic stability. The MENA region has 70% oil reserves and 46% of the natural gas reserves of the world

Arab people use the Arabic language. Farsi, the language of Iran, and Urdu, the language of Pakistan and some parts of India, are written in the Arabic script. The influence of Arabic language has been most important in Islamic countries. Arabic influence in otherr languages: Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Berber, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Swahili, Urdu, Hindustani, Turkish, Cypriot Greek, Malay, Rohingya, Bengali, Tagalog (the Philippines) or Indonesian.

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